Today's LA Times featured a fascinating article on Theodore Kosloff. He appeared in numerous DeMille silents (and a few talkies), taught Agnes DeMille to dance and was instrumental in Natacha Rambova's name change. Some rather juicy gossip contained there-in! I really enjoyed it and thought I would ...

I am very uncomfortable with the idea that just because people don't like silent films (or old films), they are intellectually inferior. I disagree with it even more strenuously in the case of my brothers and sister. They have different interests than I do, always have. They don't give much of a ha...

I don't believe that it is The Beloved Rogue. The look is similar but I don't recognize any of the actors from the film. Plus, the torture scene was much more elaborate and very differently costumed. Could there be another version of Don Juan? Or could it be an incidental scene during the Barrymore ...

One of the problems with threads like this is that there are no one-size-fits-all movies. Perhaps the best way to go about it is to ask what sort of movie a particular filmgoer likes and see what, if anything, parallels that in silent film. And, of course, you wind up with someone who loves classic...

I don't think a fascination for silent film can really set in unless a person is also fascinated with that era. At least, there needs to be the potential for an interest in that era. I think the average person accepts that there must have been a lot of classic films made way back then, but for most...

I have to agree about City Light. That was truly the film that sold me on silent cinema. The Beloved Rogue sent me over the top (John Barrymore was good but Conrad Veidt was just too splendid for words! Love that Germanic style! Can you tell?) but I haven't tested the film on newbies. My first Mary ...

While reading some of my site content at a writer's club I belong to, a couple of the members had a good idea: come up with a list of silent films that are good for people who have never seen silent movies to watch. I thought it would be a really fun thread because we have all, I'm sure, had friends...

I've always wanted to take a peek at one of those acting books. I have an ad for film industry manuals. Maybe I will post the list of books here if I can find it. It would make a great thread that people could ad to. Oh yes, please! The acting books are a kick but the books for directors and camera...

One of the joys of used books is the evidence of past readers. I have many original-edition World War One memoirs published while the war was still raging (including one from 1915, when the war wasn't even one full year old yet) and I'm fascinated by the marginalia. One book with particularly grues...

Now I'm really jealous :wink: I just love getting a bargain like that! I will have to investigate. I'm getting a decent collection of antique filmmaking books but the theater manager handbook would be an interesting addition. Plus, it will save me from the evils of tightening my films! One of my boo...

This stuff is interesting. I have a theater managers handbook published in 1912. Signature in it is from a Wm. Hayes. Found it in an area antique store. It came with a 1907 exhibitors catalog and other stuff. I tried looking him up in the Saginaw Co. directory once but no luck. Isn't it though? I'm...

jameslayton wrote:I think it's probably GM Film Printing Co.

You're probably right. The uncrossed T threw me off. Do you know anything about this business? I googled it but nothing came up other than a few entries in old directories.

Reading silent-partner's Blue Book of the Screen Thread reminded me that I have a little silent film book mystery of my own. In the summer, I purchased a copy of the 1922 book Photoplay Writing by William Lord Wright. It's part of the correspondence course in movie making offered by the New York Ins...

Shirley is a different Charlotte Bronte novel, or is this movie version entitled "Shirley" actually derived from Jane Eyre? Shirley Eyre, perhaps? Shirley is a completely different novel than Jane Eyre . Charlotte Bronte wrote Shirley as a consciously unromantic social novel, in contrast to Jane Ey...

I have purchased silent periodicals on CD-ROM from Sunrise Silents and have been pretty satisfied with the product. Has all the usual disadvantages of a digital book but the scan is well done and its nice to have a copy of rare magazines. I live in the middle of nowhere so I pretty much depend on pu...

Hi, my name is Gwen and I am a silent movie addict. I am a college student and I maintain a silent movie website in my free time... Ok, I stay up 'till 2 a.m. working on the thing when I should be studying for midterm but you must admit that it sounded good. :wink: Anyway, I love old movies and fore...